When Mothers Talk

Ilene S. Lefcourt established the Sackler Lefcourt Center for Child Development in 1982. She was the director, led the mother-baby-toddler groups, and provided developmental consultation to parents for over 35 years. She taught child psychiatry residents and parent-infant psychotherapy trainees about her work. She has been a faculty member at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research Parent-Infant Program since 1995. Ms. Lefcourt is currently in private practice in New York City. She is the author of Parenting and Childhood Memories: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Reverberating Ghosts and Magic and Mother-Baby-Toddler Group Guide: A Psychodynamic Approach.

1. Becoming A Mother 2. A Baby Is Born 3. Childhood Memories 4. Mother-Baby and Mother-Toddler Intersubjectivity 5. Child Development Information and Self-Reflective Questions 6. Describing Your Baby and Toddler 7. Child Development Themes and Subthemes 8. Birth to 6 Months 9. 6 to 12 Months 10. 12 to 18 Months 11.18 to 24 Months 12. 24 to 30 Months 13. 30 to 36 Months 14. Growing Up